To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou have more people that love you than you know.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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